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Development Of Clinical Judgment In Nursing Students: A Learning Framework To Use In Designing And Implementing Simulated Learning Experiences, Paula Marie Gubrud-Howe

Dissertations and Theses

There is little doubt that health care has changed dramatically in the last 20 years. Consequently, learning to think like a nurse has become an increasingly complex endeavor. Therefore, professional education must be re-designed to facilitate the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are required of nurses in today's practice environment. High-fidelity simulation provides an education environment for nursing students to develop new professional competencies such as clinical judgment.

The How People Learn (HPL) framework is a comprehensive instructional model that can be used to design clinical learning activities. The HPL framework emerged from the new science of learning …